Psalms 144:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

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  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue. 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:14-16
    3 verses
    83%

    14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

    15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

    16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

    2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Ps 144:3
    81%

    3 LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that you make account of him!

  • Ps 39:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; so I may know how frail I am.

    5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

    6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4 His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Jas 4:14
    78%

    14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Job 14:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12 Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

  • Ps 89:47
    77%

    47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4 For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5 Are Your days as the days of man? Are Your years as man's days,

  • Eccl 11:8
    75%

    8 But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Job 7:17
    75%

    17 What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24 Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

  • Ps 94:11
    74%

    11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

  • Isa 2:22
    74%

    22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for how much is he to be accounted of?

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

    11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

    20 All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

    4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

  • Job 7:1
    73%

    1 Is there not an appointed time for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after lies? Selah.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

    20 They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Ps 8:4
    73%

    4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that you visit him?

  • Ps 62:9
    73%

    9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

    10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Eccl 12:8
    73%

    8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Ps 90:6
    72%

    6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

  • Job 14:5
    72%

    5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits that he cannot pass;

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4 Again, I considered all the toil and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:23
    72%

    23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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